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Pamphleteering, since the days of Thomas Paine, has been the means to an altruistic end. In its present undergraduate form it becomes a noisome commercial means to a selfish end. Advertisers should realize that circulation figures of publications for which there is no charge are entirely in the hands of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARASITIC PAMPHLETS | 2/27/1935 | See Source »

When Harvard students, as representatives of a sex noted for their lack of concern for domestic matters, vociferously protest the condition of their rooms. It is time to sit up and take notice. When a bed feels like a corrugated tin roof, when dust covers every object and piles high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWEEPING ECONOMY | 2/13/1935 | See Source »

"The majesty of death" is made a mockery by the ugliness of the typical American cemetery with its piles of hideous stones. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 21, 1935 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

Wet sand, an entirely different substance, supports weight quite well when undisturbed, but when piles are driven into it the whole mass suddenly liquefies and the piles sink. Quicksand is thus merely the upward flow of water through sand. Dry sand acts even more strangely; when all the air is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASAGRANDE WORKING ON PROBLEM OF SOIL MECHANICS, REACTION | 11/30/1934 | See Source »

Out of a total University enrollment of 7733, the codfish state piles up the impressive tally of 3,063 students, leading by a considership margin that not so far distant state, New York which boasts a total of 1293 men. From here the numbers drop suddenly to Pennsy's 395...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Back Bay Provincialism Unaffected by Age of The Telegraph, Telephone, and Special Student | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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